‘Desperate’ spouses Ricardo and Eva to reunite on NBC series

When I spoke to San Antonio’s Ricardo Chavira in Beverly Hills recently, he hinted that his “Desperate Housewives” wife, Eva Longoria, might be a guest star on his new NBC comedy.

Now, it’s official. Chavira confirmed the news in a tweet Wednesday and Deadline.com elaborated in a story: According to Longoria, her old co-star asked her to come on the show; she agreed and is very excited about the TV reunion.

Moreover, Deadline reports that “sparks between Longoria and Chavira will fly again” on the “Welcome to the Family” episode.

Ah, juicy! Of course, in “Family,” Chavira’s character Miguel Hernandez is a happily married man and a devoted dad of two. In the pilot, we see how thrilled he is that his older son Junior not only has graduated at the top of his class but will attend a prestigious college.

Then, a wrench is thrown into the Hernandez family plans: Junior’s girlfriend is pregnant and the two decide to get married. This also means “marrying” Junior’s future in-laws, played by Mike O’Malley and Mary McCormack, whose backgrounds and approaches to life are dramatically different.
In the Eva episode, she’ll portray Ms. Nunez, Deadline reports, the English teacher of younger son Demetrio (Fabrizio Guido). As we soon learn, she and dad Miguel had a romantic relationship before he got married to his wife, Lisette (Justina Machado).

There likely won’t be a love triangle on the family sit-com. However, the three — Machado, Chavira and Longoria — did recently get together at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) convention in New Orleans, and Eva posted this picture of Ricardo and his two “wives” on Twitter.